Straws in the Wind - Part 24

From Inside Higher Ed: A federal district judge declined to issue an injunction that would block the Trump administration’s recent cuts to staff and contracts at the Institute of Education Sciences—an agency charged with collecting and analyzing data about both K–12 and higher education. In an opinion released last week, Maryland judge Stephanie A. Gallagher acknowledged that the new administration has terminated 90 percent of the agency’s staff and therefore IES “is not doing a number of tasks Congress requires of it.” 

Gallagher, a Trump appointee, also empathized with the two education research associations that filed the lawsuit—the American Educational Research Association and the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness—saying she trusts that not receiving the data they expected from IES “will harm them.” But that does not mean the plaintiffs have a strong enough case to stop the Trump administration from continuing to dismantle the agency...

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/06/18/federal-judge-wont-block-trumps-cuts-ies.